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felixthehaton Greek Alphabet Cards

I vibecoded myself a little web app to help me learn the greek letters/numbers/colours. helped me a little!

https://vibecards.blackspike.com/

felixthehaton Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

I think it’s a jokey term for when you use ai to copy an existing project

felixthehaton Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

Ah nice! I enjoyed trying out your product when it was launched which called this app to mind. Commendable attitude!

felixthehaton Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

Maybe a little harsh yes. But compare these screenshots of the two products/features

https://imgur.com/a/41BybD1

felixthehaton Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

Did you try the shader.com shader editor where you stack shaders and effects in layers? V similar approach!

felixthehaton Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

I heard the term used on the shoptalk podcast about cloudflare slopforking wordpress!

https://shoptalkshow.com/709/

felixthehaton Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

looks like a slopfork of the fairly new https://shaders.com - frustrating for them!

felixthehaton Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

yeah I didn't notice the CM wasn't out til september and searched for it too.

The I wasted time reading (very mixed!!) reviews for the ones I'd not read so I just pulled the trigger on Revelation Space and will see how I get on!

felixthehaton Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

I found the sci-fi tag interesting and a managable 32 books!

https://odd-lots-books.netlify.app/?q=tag%3Asci-fi

felixthehaton OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

Yeah civ VI on my iPad with an apple pencil kills flights

felixthehaton Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?

yeah check out https://front-end.social - some popular front end dev accounts:

https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs

https://social.lol/@db

https://front-end.social/@piccalilli

https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000

https://indieweb.social/@addyosmani

https://front-end.social/@jensimmons

https://mastodon.social/@adactio

https://zachleat.com/@zachleat

https://front-end.social/@rem

https://front-end.social/@chriscoyier

https://front-end.social/@AmeliaBR

https://front-end.social/@rachelandrew

https://webtoo.ls/@astro

https://webtoo.ls/@antfu

https://front-end.social/@bramus

https://front-end.social/@5t3ph

felixthehaton Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

Phil Gyford just posted about "Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them." which covers some of those points

https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-ligh...

felixthehaton US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

Internal Revenue Service for anyone else wondering!

felixthehaton Spike.News – Simple News Aggregator

I made this! Excited to be featured on HN again, and thanks for all the nice comments. I built it for myself really but happy others enjoy it. It uses nuxt/supabase/netlify functions. Happy to answer any questions either here or on my contact form https://www.blackspike.com/contact/

felixthehaton Bluesky signups are now open to the public

ha same! I just last week started building an app for myself where I can cross post to mastodon and bluesky (& twitter is in progress, threads doesn't seem to have an api yet). https://grater.app (screenshot at https://imgur.com/lyefPGv )

felixthehaton Confessions of a Country Parson

He’s an excellent follow on mastodon (and Twitter)

https://mastodon.social/@parsonjameswoodforde

https://twitter.com/JamesWoodforde1

felixthehaton Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite

  bsky-social-scbch-eolha
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felixthehaton Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web

5 invites here https://arc.net/gift/9534a0b0

felixthehaton Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

Icones is my go to https://icones.js.org/

felixthehaton Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone

https://12ft.io is another good one but yes agreed, you should cough up for the subscription when possible

felixthehaton An M1 for Curl

They donate money and resources to blender! https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-developmen...

felixthehaton Freeform: a new app designed for creative collaboration

Seems very much like Figma's FigJam https://www.figma.com/figjam/

felixthehaton LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing

Just tried this on a screen recording I made, really simple way to cut out boring bits e.g loading/waiting times, mousing etc. Great, I'll use this again!

felixthehaton If PHP Were British (2011)

It's just the author's dry, tongue-in-cheek British humour. He's not really attacking anything – just a bit of fun using English instead of American English.

felixthehaton If PHP Were British (2011)

Us regular human beings call this 'fun' if that's any help to you?

felixthehaton Nuxt 3.0 Stable

Really impressed with Nuxt 3, much faster with Vite and tons of devx improvemnts.

Also very much enjoying MDC https://content.nuxtjs.org/guide/writing/mdc to embed components in Markdown, much like https://mdxjs.com/

felixthehaton Supabase Series B

I'm trying out supabase db & auth for a side project and I'm very impressed so far.

I would love to have a usage-based pricing tier, as once I'm live I doubt I'll have enough users to merit $25/mo but I would still like to pay for daily backups etc

felixthehaton Hg Init: A Mercurial Tutorial

VS Code added that feature too recently, very nice addition https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_44#_timeline-view

felixthehaton Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

I recommend following him on twitter! https://twitter.com/samuelpepys

felixthehaton Blender 3.2

I was reading this article yesterday: 'The best 3D modelling software in 2022'

As a blender studio subscriber & hobbyist, I'm so grateful such incredible software has no barrier to entry, especially for creatives in developing countries.

You can see this reflected in this great video of the worldwide blender community from last years blender conference https://youtu.be/uEjmbsiflMU?list=PLa1F2ddGya_8Wzpajwu1EtiS8...

  Autodesk Maya $4590 per year
  Zbrush $895
  Houdini $4495 per year
  Cinema 4D $3495
  3ds Max $1700 per year
  Modo $1596
  Lightwave $995

https://www.creativebloq.com/features/best-3d-modelling-soft...